Philament, the online journal of cultural studies and literary artsaffiliated with the University of Sydneyhttp://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament , invites postgraduatescholars to contribute articles, fictocriticism, reviews, and opinionsfor:-

Philament is a free online journal of postgraduate scholarship in thefields of cultural studies and the literary arts. It is edited andpublished by students from the University of Sydney but aims to develop anintellectual community that has both an interdisciplinary and intercampusnature. Philament is designed to be a conduit for uninhibited academicdebate, critical discussion and creative expression over a broad range oftopics within the literary arts and cultural studies.

Liminal

"I live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line thatcontinually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into thedark pit where there is no meaning."

- Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places-Liminal [OED] a. gen. Of or pertaining to the threshold or initial stage of a process.rare. b. spec. in Psychol. Of or pertaining to a ‘limen’ or ‘threshold.’

Possible themes include, but are not limited to:

Alchemy, Balancing, Becoming, Begin, Between You and Me, Blur, Border,Brink and Boundaries, Coastlines, Crossing the Gap, Crucible, Demarcation,Edge, Ego and Alter-ego, First Sensations, Frontiers, Harbours and Storms,Humpty Dumpty, Lines in the Sand, Moment of Change, Neither Here norThere, Next to Nothing, Point of No Return, Portals, Rims and Lips, Takingthe Plunge, Teetering, Tertium non datur, This Page Left IntentionallyBlank, Thresholds of Pain, and Windows of Opportunity

Please note:We accept submissions in the form of:Academic papers: for peer-review with a word limit of up to 8,000 words.Opinion pieces: reviews (book, stage, screen, etc.), conference reports,short essays, responses to papers previously published in Philamentissues. Word limit of 1000 words.

Philament will only accept submissions that have not been previouslypublished and are not under consideration elsewhere.

All submissions may be sent as email attachment in a PC-readable format(preferably Microsoft Word) to philament_at_arts.usyd.edu.au.